Shoe-rack.



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SHOE RACK.

APPLICATION flLED Nov.21,.19u.

Patented Sept. 10, i918.

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IINTTED STATES PATENT QFFTCE.

JOHN RUSH GREEN, 0F SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE-RACK.

Application led November 21, 1917.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN RUSH GREEN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Somerville, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Shoe-Racks, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, isa specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to improvements in racks, standards or similar structures generally employed-to sup-port objects. In the form disclosed in the drawings, this invention is shown as applied to racks such as are used to support boots and shoes while in the factory and undergoing the various processes of manufacture. These racks are so constructed as to be readily movable from one part of the factory to another and in Each pair of rods is preferably separated such movement are subjected to hard usage.

Shoe racks of this type are almost constantly being pushed or pulled from place to place by the operatives. The most convenient gripping point is one of the uprights and hence these uprights tend to be distorted from their normal position with the result that the side and end or transverse members become loosened and tend to part and the whole rack rapidly deteriorates. This invention discloses a rack so constructed that its parts are firmly held together and locked in position. n

The object of this invention is to produce a durable and eiiicient rack. `A more speciiic object is to produce a rack in which the members forming the rack are heldl or substantially locked in normal position.

Other objects will more fully appear from the following description and will be pointed out in the annexed claims.KV

In the accompanying drawing, there has been disclosed a structure designed to carry out the objects of the invention but it is to be understood that the invention is not confined to the exact features shown, as various changes may be made within its reasonable scope.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective of the rack;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. l;

Fig. 4 is a detail view showing means of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 1o, 1918.

Serial N o. 203,075.

attachment of an end member to an upright.

The rack frame in this selected embodiment consists of four uprights l which are preferably mounted in pairs on two base bars 2, an upright being secured adjacent each of the ends of the bars. Reinforcing rods 3 function to increase the strength and rigidity of this lower part of the rack while similar rods l reinforce adjacent pairs of uprights. Spacing rods 5 are employed to hold the base bars 2 in deiinite spaced relation while casters 6 are provided at each end of the bars 2 in order that the rack may be readily moved from place to place in the establishment by the operative. These uprights bear a plurality of side members 7 which are arranged in opposed pairs. Boots, shoes, etc., are supported, usually in inverted position, by pairs of adjacent rods 8.

by means of a'dividing bar 9 presenting separate rack compartments. In such position uponthese racks, the articles are moved about the factory during the various steps in their construction. `When a shoe rack of this general type' is pulled or pushed by an operative, an upright is usually-grasped. Hence, the major strain comes upon the upright which eventually becomes distorted from normal spaced relation to the' other uprights and -the ends of the side members 7 are loosened i-n their union with the uprights and rapid destruction of the shoe rack results. It is more particularlyT to the means for securing the ends of these side members 7 to the uprights thatthis invention is directed. The side members 7 are provided at each end withl terminal portions which are preferably countersunk in opposed faces of the uprights while locking members are provided which are positioned between two adjacent uprights so that their ends abut against the countersunk portions of the side members. In this preferred embodiment of the invention, the terminal portions of the side members are shaped to form integral tongues 10, which are reduced on three sides from the surfaces of the side members. These tongues l0 are each countersunk in the uprights in such a manner that the unreduced sides of adjacent tongues are opposed and preferably in the vertical plane of the surface of their respective uprights. These tongues l0 may be secured in bers are each locked in position'in the upm rights by means of the reinforcing end transverse bars 12. These bars are alike and are made of a width substantially equal to tleY distance between two vadjacent uprights.l

These transverse bars 12 are positioned so that their ends abut against opposed faces of adjacent tongues 10. In order that each of these transverse bars 12 may be easily-ap,- plied and retained in locking position, each eiid of the bar is provided with an eccentric terminal projection adapted to be received in holes in the upright. Such projections are preferably tenons 13 provided nearone side of each end face of each bar 12. These tenons may be inserted in their holes before the tongues 10 of the side bars are positioned as each bar 12 may be turned about its tenons as pivots into` a position out of the way for the emplacement of the countersunk tongues. Such position is shown at the right in Fig. V2. After the countersunk tongues are positioned in the uprights and nailed, the transverse bars 12 are upwardly turned into the reinforcing and the locking position show-n on the left in Fig. 2. A fastening means such as a nail `14e may be driven through eachA tenon into the upright andthus to hold the transverse bars against rotation.

There is thus provided aneiicient and durable frame structure which is particularly adapted for use in movable boot and shoe racks. y

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I` claim as new and desirev to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. In a rack the combination of uprights, side members, the side members hav-iiig terminal portions countersunk in opposed faces of adjacent uprights, and transverse inembers, the terminal faces of each transverse membervabutting against opposed faces of the countersunk portions of two adjacent side members. y i j 2. In a rack the combination Ofuprights, side members, a. terminal tongueat each end ACopies of this patent may be obtained for of each side member, the said tongues being `against opposed faces of the countersunk terminal tongues of two adjacent side me1nbers.

Y3. In a rack -the `combination of uprights, side members, the side members having terminal portions countersunk opposed faces of adjacent uprights, and transverse members, the: transverse membershaving terminal projections securing the members to the iipriglits with the terminal faces of each transverse member respectively abutting against opposed faces of the countersunk portions 'of two oadjacent side members.

4. In a rack the combination of uprights, side members having terminal portions countersunk in opposed sides of two adja cent uprights, transverse members, and eccentric terminal projections on each end of saidtransverse members, mounted in holes in the uprights, the oppositely Vextending projections of each transverse member being received in said opposed sides adjacent said countersunk portions whereby, after emplacement of said countersunk portions, each transverse member may be ecceiitrically turned about its projections to lock said countersunk portions.

In a rack the combination of uprights,

side members having terminal portions countersiink in opposed sides of two adjacent uprights, transverse members, terminal proj ecbers, the oppositely extending projections of each transverse member being mounted in holes in said Aopposed' sides adjacent said countersunk portions, whereby, after 'emplacement of said countersunk portions, each transverse member may be turned about its projections to lock said countersunk portions, aiid means to prevent turning of said transverse members when in locking position. Y In testimony` whereof I have signed my name to'this specification. i Y l j vJOI-IN RUSH GREEN.

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